‘ I am free to fall in love.’ Those words sounded pretty good. However, she had just been dumped! Should she not be sad?
Layla was stunned, but Caleb was happy about it. “So, it’s okay to pursue you now, right?”
The back of his neck suddenly felt a little cold. He shrugged and turned around and was met with Luacs’s cold glare.
His spine tingled, and Caleb quickly laughed and said, “That… I’m just kidding. I don’t like Elena like that.”
“Am I that unlikable?” Elena got off the folding bed and glared at him.
“No, it’s just… that… Oh, I don’t like you anyway.” Caleb laughed and quickly slipped away.
It was not that he did not like her. They were all good friends, so how could he not like her? However, he did not dare to like her!
Everyone knew that Luacs was very protective of Elena. He would not dare to approach the girl as long as Luacs was there. Therefore, it was better for them to remain friends. Furthermore, was Layla not better looking than Elena? If he had to choose a girl near him, he would definitely go for Layla. Elena was a little too extreme for his taste.
Elena walked into the bathroom, shut the door, and stared at her messy self in the mirror. She could not remember what had happened the previous night. Her freckles were smeared and dirty.
Her freckles…
Elena raised her hand and stroked her slender fingers across her face. Makeup was always harmful to one’s skin, and she also hated her face. She sighed. Then she washed her face with the facial cleansing foam.
“Layla, could you please bring me a change of clothes,” she yelled.
“Okay.” Since she always had to work overtime, she had everything she needed at the office.
After Layla sent her a fresh set of clothes, she took a shower to refresh herself.
Layla glanced at the bathroom door, then at Luacs. Luacs said, “She called me last night, and I brought her straight to the office.”
“Did anything else happen?”
Layla was referring to Elena and Eldest Young Master Williams, but Luacs’s face grew warm. He walked to the window and stared out at the view to avoid Layla’s stare.
“We just drank some alcohol and slept till morning.”
Well, at least Elena had slept until morning. When he heard her utter the name, ’Michael’, he immediately got off her. He thought of her breathing, her hazy eyes, and the name she had called out for the rest of the night. He sat there like that the entire night.
Layla and Caleb glanced at each other. Layla had more questions, but Caleb quickly waved his arms and signaled her not to ask.
“Anyway, Elena had already planned for her break-up with Eldest Young Master Williams in two years. It’s just been brought forward.”
Caleb chuckled; everything was said and done. There was no use to keep beating a dead horse. They could tell that Elena was unhappy, but they did not realize how upset she was. Only time would tell.
Personally, Caleb hoped that Elena would get together with Luacs. They had been friends for many years and knew each other inside out. Luacs would treat Elena well, and he would guarantee that with his life.
Would it not be better for her to be with Luacs?
However, that was a secret between the two boys. Even Layla was not aware of it. He could only treat it as a passing thought.
They heard someone outside the office door. Not long after that, Lois entered the premises.
“You’re all here. I thought that I would give you guys a call.”
Lois looked joyful as she quickly went inside the office. “Where’s Elena?”
“In the shower.” Layla pointed to the bathroom.
“I received a call from Sharp Corporation this morning, and they wanted us to sign the contract. They insisted that Elena attend the meeting in person.”
“So soon?” Both Layla and Caleb were pleasantly surprised.
Luacs also turned around to look at Lois. That had been Elena’s dream. She could finally let the world see more of September Studio’s work. A contract with Sharp Corporation is a giant magical leap forward.
“That’s right. I came over as soon as I received the call.”
It was obvious that Lois did rush to the office as her breathing was still labored. “Best to get it signed as soon as possible and so that we won’t drag it for too long.”
They have not collaborated with such a big company before. If Sharp Corporation were to go back on their word, then a tiny studio like theirs would not have much leverage.
As they continued to talk, the bathroom door swung open, and a girl walked out. Her skin still carried a thin layer of water droplets, and her hair was still wet. She was still towel-drying her long hair as she walked out of the bathroom.
The four of them in the lounge stared at her, and their eyes locked onto her face, unable to look away.
So beautiful! She looked like a fairy!
The freckles on her face were gone, and it was spotlessly clean, fair, and delicate. Her face was also pinkish from the hot shower. Her long eyelashes framed her large and beautiful black eyes naturally, and her tiny lips were like the tender and fragile pink rosebuds. They looked like fresh jello—springy, plump, and pink.
Without her freckles, her exquisite facial features immediately popped. Her face looked like a masterpiece carved by the world’s most skillful craftsmen!
She looked magnificent! So beautiful that they could not look away. So gorgeous that they forgot to breathe.
“You… Who are you?” Lois involuntarily took two steps forward as she tried to get closer to the goddess. At the same time, she was flustered too.
That girl was several times more beautiful than Ava… Who was she? Did she know her?
They told her that Elena was in the shower.
“Class monitor, are you blind? It’s me.”
Elena stared at her. Her face no longer bore the confusion and anguish that she had the previous night—a perfect metamorphosis and rebirth with just a mere shower.
“You… You… You are Elena!” Lois almost knelt before her!
It really was Elena! The person that everyone knew to be the ugliest girl on campus!
How could that be? How did the ugly duckling become a swan?
“You… Did you go for cosmetic surgery?” Lois still could not accept reality.
“Not surgery. This… This should be the pico laser treatment.”
Layla was also dumbfounded. Elena had freckles before she took a shower. How did she get a pico laser treatment in the shower? Furthermore, that treatment could not remove the freckles completely. Some would remain on the skin.
However, Elena’s face was utterly spotless. It was perfect and flawless.
Caleb finally recovered his senses. “I guess that it was because Elena was that her beautiful appearance would cause some trouble for her. Therefore…”
He took a deep breath, then summarized, “Did you deliberately paint those freckles so that you would look ugly?”